Feingold’s Proposal To Censure Bush Over NSA Program

Posted on March 13, 2006

Update: Fiengold submits his idiotic idea, without much support, and Frist calls for a full vote on the spot. The Dems prove they don’t have the guts to do that yet, and ask for more time, proving this is nothing more than a political ploy.

Ian at Expose the Left has the video
Via NY Times

Senator Russell D. Feingold said Sunday that he would introduce a measure in the Senate to censure President Bush over the domestic eavesdropping program.

“What the president did by consciously and intentionally violating the Constitution and laws of this country with this illegal wiretapping has to be answered,” Mr. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, said on the ABC News program “This Week.” “Proper accountability is a censuring of the president, saying: ‘Mr. President, acknowledge that you broke the law, return to the law, return to our system of government.’ ”

Mr. Feingold, who has said he will consider a run for the White House in 2008, said he planned to introduce his legislation on Monday. He said his censure proposal was not “a harsh approach, and it’s one that I think should lead to bipartisan support.”

But Senator Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican and the majority leader, called the proposal “a crazy political move.” And Senator John W. Warner, a Virginia Republican and chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said it was “the worst type of political grandstanding.”

And the liberals go wild!
Political grandstanding indeed. Can we please get focused on fighting this war on terror instead of fighting the efforts to protect us? Can we please wake up to the fact we are still at war?

Blogs for Bush react!

Yesterday, in response to Senator Feingold’s desire to censure President Bush over the NSA’s signals intelligence program, I wrote a post urging everyone to contact Senator Frist and their own Sentors to urge the censure of Senator Feingold. Several people who commented on the post said they had done so, and we’ve decided to place this update here on Monday to urge even more people to do so.

You can contact Senator Frist here, and locate your own Senators here. In the extended entry is a copy of the email I sent to Senators Frist and Ensign (figuring that my other Senator - Reid - would be a wasted effort). Feel free to use it as is, or modify it to your desire, or make up your own.

I think this is important and I am hoping for a bit of a response on this. Part of the reason for downcast GOP spirits on the war is, I believe, due to the lack of “fight back” against the America-haters who are undermining the war effort in the service of their narrow, partisan political goals. President Bush can fight back quite a lot, but he could never lead the charge to have a Sentorial critic censured - it would be improper for a President to do that to a member of another branch of govenment. We, on the other hand, are not limited by the niceties of Presidential office-holding.

The left in this country has been given a free ride far too long. We are at war with cruel enemies who take heart every time a Feingold, Kennedy, Kerry or Pelosi slanders the President’s war policy and/or the efforts of our troops in the war. Disagreement is one thing, but what we’ve got from the left isn’t disagreement, but just the automatic gainsaying of whatever the President does in the war effort. This is destructive in two senses - it depresses the morale of the troops overseas who wonder if we’ve the grit to allow them to fight on to victory and it encourages the enemy to fight on.

Censure of Feingold would send a double signal - to our troops that the anti-war left isn’t running the show and to our enemies that America is going to fight them until they quit or are all dead. I ask everyone to join us in this effort - lets do our small part!

Blogs for Bush has a copy of the email they sent in their extended entry and they are allowing anyone to use it as a form letter. We are on board. I’m sick and tired of the left undermining our war efforts in the name of winning political points with their far left appeaser base. Its time to send a wake up call to Washington.

AJ Strata agrees that Fiengold’s folly is lame but thinks it is in no further need of PR.

Since this issue is a done deal with two new congressional subcommittees who get to see why we have certain people who are talking to terrorists under surveillance, there are only a few explanations for this odd behavior. Either Russ has no idea about the resolution, or he believes there is no other more important issue facing this country. Is he naive or chasing wild geese?

Michelle Malkin has a great roundup on the issue.
To see a good debate with John Hinderocker from Powerline and Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff, see the video at Expose The Left. This is where the focus should be…on investigating and prosecuting those that leaked classified information.

Also see Washington Post
The Political Pitbull
Sister Toldjah
Rhymes With Right
Decision 08
Scrappleface

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